The Faculty Lounge

Abstract

This chapter examines the design of a virtual “space” for adjunct faculty who teach Information Literacy at an open-enrollment, online university. The resources tailored for the faculty lounge are intended to engage students individually in the high-enrollment course and also support adjunct faculty to reallocate their efforts to support areas of instruction, including targeted, one-on-one support for struggling students. Core faculty at an online university set out to develop a local “space” for our adjunct population who teach within this area of purview. The authors provided targeted instructional guidance on course-related content, professional development events, sample feedback, and weekly announcements to support adjunct faculty to encourage the reallocation of efforts in other areas of the course where individualized instruction is needed (e.g., embedded comments on assignments and one-on-one instruction).